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Juan Miguel Ramos: Drawing and Photoshop

About This Project

In this lesson students will develop an understanding between the connection of art and Photoshop. Within contemporary art the technology that is in artists grasp is exponentially beneficial. Students will gain a basic understanding of Photoshop tools and how the program can profit artists in the creative process. Using self-portrait contour drawings and overlaying them onto a photograph the students assemble a 2-dimensional digital drawing.

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About the artist

Juan Miguel Ramos holds an MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio and teaches photography and drawing at Northwest Vista Community College, San Antonio, TX. Truly a product of San Antonio’s art education, Ramos began his trainingRead more

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